Tourniquets are used to control severe bleeding by applying pressure to stop blood flow to an injured limb, commonly in life-threatening situations and during surgery to provide a bloodless field for surgeons. While critical in emergency trauma care, tourniquets are applied only when other methods like direct pressure and wound packing have failed, and are used with caution in elective surgery for conditions like hand surgery or knee and lower leg surgeries.
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Used to control severe bleeding by applying pressure to stop blood flow to an injured limb, commonly in life-threatening situations and during surgeries
used with caution in elective surgery for conditions like hand surgery or knee and lower leg surgeries.